It is a carefully considered bill worked on with the NGOs most committed to the decarbonization of transport. The text comes from Damien Adam, Renaissance deputy for Seine-Maritime, for “accelerate and control the greening of automobile fleets”as its title indicates.
The logic is simple: fleets are cars purchased by companies, either for their own use or as a benefit in kind for their employees. Today, companies account for more than half of new purchases. A few years later – sometimes less when these companies are short-term rental companies like Hertz, Ada, Avis, EuropCar, etc. – these vehicles are resold used, at a discount, which allows households to equip themselves at a lower price. more affordable.
The more fleets go electric, the more wattages there will be affordable for everyone. A necessary sequence to decarbonize travel already identified in the 2019 mobility orientation law, known as LOM, supported by Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Transport. This law required companies with more than 100 light vehicles to have a minimum share of low-emission cars in the annual renewal of their fleet.
“The law was not implemented”
Four years later, MP Damien Adam believes that it is not enough. “In the absence of a control and sanction mechanism, the law has not been followed up”, he explains. As proof, he cites the reports published by the NGO Transport & Environment on compliance with the LOM law for which 66% of the companies targeted were not in line with the obligation to incorporate at least 10% low-energy vehicles. emissions as part of the renewal of their fleets in 2022. “In 2022, only 6.5% of new light vehicles integrated into these fleets were electric, with no significant difference between the companies covered by the law and the others”, he explains. This is much less than individuals.
The MP therefore proposes to accelerate the pace, with a fleet renewal objective of 20% from 1er January 2024, 30% from 2025, 40% in 2026 and so on up to 95% from January 1, 2032. It provides for “proportionate sanctions”in particular a restriction of access to public markets and no longer wants to count LPG vehicles or plug-in hybrids.
“The trajectory that I propose corresponds to what the general secretariat for ecological planning recommends”, recalls the MP who is therefore counting on the support of the government. It already has that of many NGOs (Transport & Environment, Climate Action Network, WWF, Foundation for Nature and Man, UFC-Que Choisir, Forum for Responsible Investment, Iddri, Pour une awakening ecological, CFDT, Avere, Climate Group or Shift Project). The Greens and La France insoumise (LFI) also supported the text as presented to the Sustainable Development Committee on the evening of Monday April 8.
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